We went around 6pm and were able to be seated right away, which was great! The wait staff was attentive and good. The Blue Raspberry Lemon Drop was alright, it was too sweet and artificial tasting. Pickle fries were too salty. read more

Applebee's Grill + Bar - Blue Raspberry Lemon Drop - American Near Me - Macedonia, Ohio

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I would say about a month ago,we went to the Applebees in strongsville. The service and food were deplorable. Well,I received a $30 gift card for complaining,(do to the salty food.) We visited the Macedonia restaurant. People waiting to be seated,only a handful of people in the restaurant(less then 25. There was a 20 minute wait time!! The place was dead!! But they had a 20 min wait!! Ordered food. The appetizers (mozzarella sticks.) waited 20 minutes to get those,47 minutes to get dinner. Is Applebees restaurant chain going down the tubes? The Ohio State/michigan game was on,the place was dead!! When we went to Strongsville restaurant,Browns football on,the place was dead. The food here was much better,the atmosphere and service was a -7 Last time for Applebees!! read more

Order for pickup- ready on time- food was hot. Ordered the new OM cheeseburger- unfortunately the queso sauce was missing? Where's the cheese? Wife also could not eat the cheesy broccoli because it had too much pepper! Pepper was not listed in the menu for the broccoli. Otherwise it was a good experience. read more

I went to this Applebees on Friday night and was seated at 8 with my spouse we ordered the 2 for 25the fiesta chicken and the ok burger; needless to say the " horrible " waitress we had did not notice that we did not have our food we had ordered although several parties that arrived at least twenty minutes after we were seated received their appetizers and food while we sat their waiting; at 9:25 we left with no food packaged to go or no food being served to us. I have been coming here with my family for years but this is my last visit to this restaurant. It deserves a no star rating!!! read more

Pretty good food. Service was fantastic. Always made sure we had our drinks filled and making sure we were well taken care of. I had the chicken sandwich and thought it was fantastic and better than the fast food chains. read more

The good news is their food is as good as any Applebee's. The bad news is your customers don't care if your shortstaffed they only care that they are getting what they paid for. It's typical of Gen Z to make excuses and that's what it seemed like most of their employees are. But the truth is I don't care that you're shortstaffed. I shouldn't have to wait 45 minutes for you to figure out which order is mine on a carryout order. I hope you take this as constructive criticism never explain just say "I'm very sorry and we will take care of it." This is coming from someone who owned a restaurant and two banquet centers. read more

Did you ever go out for lunch on a Friday during lent to find a Lenten appropriate meal in Macedonia Ohio? I actually had two appointments on the same day in Macedonia, which is a 50 mile one-way travel for me. I searched yelp before I went out and there weren't a lot of choices so I opted for one of my usuals-- Applebee's. I should've kept driving. I walked in, It was probably 1 o'clock and was seated by the crabbiest host I've ever met and I won't go into any details. If he doesn't like his job, he should find another They had three fish choices, one was salmon, yuck. One was fish and chips, another yuck so I chose double crusted shrimp and I replaced the fries and coleslaw with broccoli and more broccoli. The food took forever to come out. I'd almost finished my entire large beverage. The shrimp were fine, but it's supposed to come with Cocktail sauce... I tried it and called the server over and I said wasn't this supposed to come with cocktail sauce and she said that's our cocktail sauce. I said that's ketchup -- she says that IS our cocktail sauce SO I PASSED ON THE KETCHUP. the broccoli was so badly undercooked a coconut shell would've been SOFTER to eat. I don't like broccoli that's not the bright green color and overcooked but that wasn't the issue. They needed to go three or four more minutes to make it able to be cut easily with a fork not with a STEAK KNIFE. Brought most of the broccoli home in a doggie box, nuked it for about two minutes and it was cooked to perfection. I carried on with shopping at Walmart, went to my two appointments and came back to Berea very disappointed in my restaurant choice today. the server was attentive very positive upbeat and appreciated her muchly, but maybe she should find a restaurant where she's better utilized and people appreciate the food and beverages along with the great help and service provided read more

host ignored me and fiance upon arrival waitress "forgot" to put my order in, they also took 20 minutes to bring out a draft beer. Do not come here. read more

Another Clark get together! Eleven of us to eat please. We got a newer waitress and she actually did really good for all of of! She kept the drinks a coming. No one was empty and she checked on us often. It was a Saturday nite and quite busy too. Must be payday..??!! Lol. Anyway out of appitizers and food there were 3 mishaps with the food. That's why the three stars. We ordered chicken oriental salad. His had no dressing.. another steak order was bloody. He sent it back to be recooked and it was still red but he ate most. No bacon on a bacon burger & one gals steak on the salad was undercooked too! Sooo the manager came out after we were done and all got discounts. Other than that WE all had a good time and were loud of course. Yelling across the tables and we were getting up and seeing one another haha. read more

Applebee's Grill + Bar - Chicky oriental salad (part) - American Near Me - Macedonia, Ohio

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We met some people at Applebees and I was never a fan of semi-fast food restaurants, but the food was great! I ordered a Crispy Bacon Chicken Sandwich/held the dressing and the sandwich was really tasty. The chicken was juicy, fresh, and crispy, and the brioche bun was perfect. My partner ordered the chicken salad and it was perfect. I'm really impressed. I'll have to try other locations now when I see one as I travel around. The restaurant was clean and the service was great. Happy we stopped. read more

Service is great! Food is great! Drinks are great, and stiff. Go to chili's in Macedonia. read more

Applebee's Grill + Bar - Lisa, the bartender, is the best! My Grand coconut margarita. - American Near Me - Macedonia, Ohio

Service was excellent waitress was super friendly We also enjoyed the food especially the half price appetizers between 3pm until 6pm. My wife and I shared the boneless buffalo wings and had the quesadillas for my entree ,both were very tastey and large generous portions. read more

Pretty Good would definitely order here again, the Waiter was very nice Thank you so much.

Applebee's used to be a favorite for me and my family but they have made some menu changes that have really been disappointing! For example- The portion sizes on all of the appetizers that are part of the trio have gotten smaller. The soft pretzel sticks are skinnier than my fingers. The boneless wings were hard and not fully tossed in sauce. The only decent app was the spinach dip (and that had a rubbery layer of cheese over top they needed to be removed before eating. Rubbery, not warm bubbly melty) They other app we ordered was the salsa verde beef nachos. Gross. Completely unseasoned hamburger meat on nachos with thick raw jalapeños rings. In the picture I had already chopped up the jalapeños into smaller pieces. Also, the kids meal was $4.99 and was a single tiny cheeseburger with very few fries. Shown in the picture. Very disappointing. Save the money and skip the ciabatta bread bun and use regular cheap buns like kids prefer and GIVE 2 SLIDERS you cheapskates. Ugh. I recommend only going for the cheap drinks and skipping the food. I hear they have $1 Long Islands this month. read more

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Poor service. Rude bartender. Won't be coming back to this location. The bartender wouldn't let us put in a to go order at the bar for some reason. How else are we supposed to do it? read more

Oh, Applebee's, you predictable chain, you. Located in Macedonia, Ohio, otherwise know as the epicenter for hideous, soul-destroying sameness; how I despise you! Oh, where to start? For one, how does this place or its ilk remain consistently busy? Is this or the unexplainable attraction to other similar chain restaurants somehow a reflection of society? Do the people patronizing boring sameness like this strive for anything above mediocre? Simply put, what is wrong with people? Applebee's is the poster child for everything that is wrong with the overpopulated, over-the-top, un-original, flair crazed dining landscape of the mainstream American chain. Cheesy, disingenuous, robotic, intelligent-insulting wait service. Crap schmeared and strung about on the walls in a cluster-fuck fashion. The place is too happy, too bright, tables too sticky, too many kids screaming and I haven't even gotten to the food yet! I struggle to understand how THIS has become an acceptable means of dining! For whatever reason, most people fear the unknown, but find comfort in sameness. You KNOW what Applebee's offers even before you step foot in the door and what to expect. Your brain is overwhelmed with TV, radio and print ads announcing the latest un-inspiring "Pick-'N-Pair" lunch combos & "Ultimate Trios". It's the same whether you're in Singapore or San Jose, California. To most, this is comforting. To any future readers out there, please, for the love of God, try someplace new next time you dine out. You may surprise yourself. Take Little Timmy and the family out to a local Mom & Pop eatery instead. You may feel better about yourself upon leaving. At the very least, part of your soul and dignity will still be in tact. read more

Applebee's Grill + Bar - American Near Me - Macedonia, Ohio

Applebees was a disappointment. The waitress was sub-par. The food was sub-par. There were 12 of us. I ordered the ribs, they were lukewarm and the fries were cold. It took 22 min for food to come out. 3 people ordered the chicken tenders. They were overcooked. The waitress needs more customer service training. My son ordered the boneless wings and they were pretty good. The fries were terrible and very salty. Since it took so long for the food to come out, we did not send it back. We will not be going back to That Applebee's!!! read more

I wish I would have checked the reviews first. I ordered for delivery and was given a time of 60-80 minutes for my order to be delivered. Then when they were supposed to be here I got an additional notice it would now be another 45 minutes to be delivered 6 miles down the road! I wanted to do take out but delivery was the o my option. Very disappointed. read more

And I go to Applebees I always order the steak and shrimp parmesan and it did not disappoint this time I enjoyed almost everything about my experience there our waitress was nice and she didn't come over too many times but she always was capable of being around when we needed her the food was really good my only issue was my drink my margarita was extremely extremely salty I wouldn't recommend a margarita there but I have had other drinks that were much better read more

Applebee's Grill + Bar - American Near Me - Macedonia, Ohio

I ordered curbside to go. I arrived about 5 mins early. The gentleman came outside because he was dropping off food to another car. I waited until 3:45 then I called in to let them know I was outside they put me on hold for 10 mins. I called back again and Sarah stated my food would be right out.. fast forward the food never came out. I came in and asked for the food to be refunded. Never an apology from Todd the manager. As I was there I called their area manager that also haven't returned any calls to discuss the matter. The restaurant wasn't even busy.. I haven't checked my account yet to make sure they refunded my money read more

This was an awful experience. The hostess was the only one who looked as if she had even showered, but she was pissed to be working. Our waitress had on leggings and slip on crocs. She had no clue as to what was on the menu. The waitress serving the table behind us was just as clueless with her table. There was a table with an unruly child, and the first couple got up and left because of it, within minutes they sat ANOTHER poor couple there. They moved. The restaurant was no where near full so there were several empty tables to seat people, but AGAIN they say more people at the adjoining table. We were so desperate to get out that we left a huge tip just so we wouldn't have to wait for change. The food was wrong, and the shrimp had been nuked.... Definitely a letdown. It would be amazing what a good manager could do for this place. A hygiene lesson to the waitresses and a quick lesson in professionalism. When you can sit and observe the majority of a restaurant suffering from bad food and bad service, it's the managements fault. read more

Service was slow, we had a great server, the manager was more interested in flirting with the female staff than the customers. So disappointing read more

We like Applebees so no review there. But we wondered why Happy Hour only included beer and not wine. Also, the credit card machine now comes to the table. We thought it was to save time. We got our receipts with the totals hand written that somebody had to write accurately. Why? The totals could have been circled or highlighted. We swiped our credit cards through the machine and signed. Then our busy waitress hurriedly brought us the receipts to sign again. Why are we signing the receipt again if we ran our own cards? Seemed awkward, and our busy waitress seemed frustrated, but kind. Totally unnecessary. Perhaps this pay system needs to be rethought. read more

Chain chain chain, I'm a fool for thinking I would go here for a good meal. But the menu has much improved. Surprised by the grilled shrimp and spinach salad, with French dippers at a price not to kill your lunch budget. Just don't get a pop. Because pop is now gold. It always gets me what places charge for pop vs the cost to them. So its applebees. I will spare you the décor and style comments. What makes this one different. The wait staff is average. It is usually pretty busy, but you can do the hour lunch. read more

This is the worst restaurant I've have ever been too. Last time I got chiken and it was hard and undercooked this time I went and got a steak and more than half of it was gristle. The service is slow have too wait along time for drinks finally had to get my own from bar applebees used to be my favorite now i doubt I'll ever try again read more

My first journey out of the house, after moving to this state yesterday, landed me at Applebees. The only problem was that it was 11:20pm... And they close at midnight! I felt like such a d-bag, strolling in that late and so near to closing time. BUT the staff didn't seem to mind... Or at least they were pretty good at faking it! Our food and drinks were delivered in record time. As a recently displaced Chicagoan I look forward to trying all the different foods in the area. I realize Applebees is a nation chain and will have the same food everywhere, but I will still come back here because they served my food without spitting in it even though it was so near closing time, and, I don't want to turn Yelp into a Craigslist 'missed connections' section, but my waitress Melissa (W?) was awfully cute :) read more

This is my favorite place in town to eat at! Love me some festa lime chicken! And 80% of the rest of the menu! The staff is super nice! read more

Applebee's Grill + Bar - Drinks!! - American Near Me - Macedonia, Ohio

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I quit going to Applebee's years ago. But my niece graduated and my brother and his family chose here for us to meet up after the ceremony. We were a group of 14 so I already figured if they couldn't get me and my wife's stuff right that this had the potential to be a disaster. It was. First it took forever for the food to come out. But like I said it was 14 people so whatever. I ordered the Triple Dog Dare Ya which was supposed to consist of a sandwich with onion straws, pulled pork, bacon and ham. When they brought out the food I noticed that the onion straws looked burnt. I tasted them and of course they were. Visibly burned and there was no bacon. Like why would you send that out? Told the waitress and she took it back. It came back very quick with a heaping of onion straws, like a comical amount like they were upset I sent the sandwich back. I then noticed that there was no pulled pork on the sandwich. How does one make a sandwich minus TWO major ingredients AND burned onion straws. I talked to the manager this time. I told her I don't even want the sandwich because clearly they don't know how to make it. I chose just a regular bacon cheese burger. Like they can't possible F this up. Well that took forever to come out. I had to go looking for the waitress to tell her never mind because everyone was finished eating and I asked her if she was planning on charging me for it and she said she thought the manager was going to. The manager had brought the plate to the table while I had got up to find the waitress and told my wife in this BS tone not to worry about paying for it. Applebee"s is a joke of a restaurant. And the management had no professionalism. read more

I was very happy with my steak it was cooked just as I asked and my waitress was very helpful . Nothing wrong with this Applebee's ! read more

Applebee's Grill + Bar - Cajun steak and shrimp - American Near Me - Macedonia, Ohio

I do the car-side to go, my order is NEVER ready on time and I'm not talking five minutes, last night was 22 minutes and Monday was 20 minutes, the $20 rack of ribs looked like bird ribs, on the plus... Order accuracy has been pretty good. read more

I ordered the chicken fajita dinner. It was extremely busy with a long wait for the dinner at approximately 20 minutes. When IFinally received my dinner, I only received the rice which was not fully cooked. I waved my waiter down to ask where the rest of the meal was After about five more minutes, he brought over the shells with the lettuce, tomato, cheese , sour cream, etc. I would never have a Mexican dinner there again. read more

This is a zero rating. Worst place to eat. Let's start from the beginning. When walking in took a while to be greeted even though multiple employees were standing chatting by the door. When it came to ordering, I wanted a tea with a lemon slice but I got something different. Eventually they addressed the mistake and it took two people and three times asking for my lemon. When we received our food it was cold and salty and under cooked. When I asked for my side to be heated a little it came back as hot as lava is there no happy medium. Lastly one employee busted our table but already had a full hand and proceeded to drop silverware and food everywhere, so unprofessional. Will never go here again. read more

Was a busy night, only saw our waitress twice, once for drinks other for check, bartender came out and helped and was very helpful. Waitress forgot to bring one of our apps out. read more

Sat for over 30 minutes hoping to place our order. Couldn't get service. Bartender sees whats going on and says nothing. Watches us walk out without an apology. Door girl is oblivious and thanks us for coming in. Forget this place. read more

So I've been to Applebee's a billion times, but yesterday I went with my mom for the 6.99 burger night with a free refill on fries;that they have on Mondays. I ordered the brunch burger with sweet potato fries, and the burger was really good, but my fries I didn't care for to much. The service was pretty slow as well, and I kept having to search for my waitress when I needed something! Overall, I really enjoyed my burger and some quality time with my mom. read more

Not terribly bad for a chain restaurant. We had the same waitress both visits and she remembered us, our kids, and what our special needs were. We'll most likely be back. read more

We had a large group (13) on Valentine's weekend and chose to eat at a slower time, 3:00. We did call ahead to "warn" them and they were most accommodating. When we arrived, the tables were all set and ready for us. We had a friendly, efficient, waiter and a very enjoyable experience. The food was delicious and quickly served. I would highly recommend this restaurant. read more

I am not an Applebee's fan, but my daughter wanted to go. It was a week night so it was pretty tame service wise. Everyone was very nice and attentive. The food was so so but it always is with Applebee's. The manager held the door open for us when we left and that was a good ending touch. read more

Haven't been to Applebee's in quite awhile before this evening. Now I remember why. Ordered a steak medium well and got medium to medium rare. Steak was not hot, but the plate was. Upon leaving there were piles of dirty plates on the high top behind the check in stand and dishes to be picked up on multiple tables. Saw no management to speak to. They have been walking around all the time in the past. Won't be back until things change for the better. read more